Quotes About Society

I don't see any reason why society can't function well when people come together in the common interest under our system. In fact that's what the Big Society is all about!

As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education.

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.

While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where we should be as a civilized society.

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

To be white in President Trumps America is to fundamentally belong.

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

Our response to crises cannot be adding more and more police funding.

In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

There is no such thing as a fallen woman; when she steps out of her place, she always steps up.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others so uncomfortable. He haunts them at their golf.

It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you

You have no idea how engrossing such a profession may become. Just as the blacksmith says: 'By hammer and hand all Art doth stand,' just as the baker thinks that all the solar system revolves around his morning delivery of rolls, as the postmaster-general believes that he alone is the preserver of society - and surely, surely, these delusions are necessary to keep us going.